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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA


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This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the worldwide box office of the movies they worked on.

Since we are still actively researching technical roles, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. The table includes data for movies in The Numbers database. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.

Rank Name Worldwide
Box Office
Movies Average
101 Greta Gerwig $1,743,216,291 4 $435,804,073
102 Joe Johnston $1,734,395,893 11 $157,672,354
103 Marc Forster $1,733,415,849 13 $133,339,681
104 Kelsey Mann $1,698,831,782 1 $1,698,831,782
105 Ang Lee $1,694,435,999 14 $121,031,143
106 Joel Schumacher $1,667,477,130 23 $72,499,006
107 Rob Letterman $1,666,324,849 7 $238,046,407
108 Paul W.S. Anderson $1,662,740,347 14 $118,767,168
109 Alfonso Cuarón $1,644,938,325 9 $182,770,925
110 Ruben Fleischer $1,635,919,763 8 $204,489,970
111 Matthew Vaughn $1,632,424,563 8 $204,053,070
112 Juan Antonio Bayona $1,603,579,912 5 $320,715,982
113 Robert Rodriguez $1,596,273,460 25 $63,850,938
114 Andy Muschietti $1,588,137,405 6 $264,689,568
115 Paul Greengrass $1,580,532,627 12 $131,711,052
116 Peter Berg $1,579,662,943 13 $121,512,534
117 Tom Shadyac $1,579,209,212 8 $197,401,152
118 Antoine Fuqua $1,566,747,384 23 $68,119,451
119 Stephen Sommers $1,550,334,056 8 $193,791,757
120 Hayao Miyazaki $1,539,697,094 12 $128,308,091
121 Peter Farrelly $1,526,128,386 18 $84,784,910
122 Chris Weitz $1,521,154,314 9 $169,017,146
123 Doug Liman $1,514,440,917 16 $94,652,557
124 Fan Guo (郭帆) $1,514,013,924 5 $302,802,785
125 Lana Wachowski $1,469,206,771 7 $209,886,682
126 Kelly Asbury $1,464,311,084 5 $292,862,217
127 Shane Black $1,450,544,730 6 $241,757,455
128 Jaume Collet-Serra $1,443,639,792 13 $111,049,215
129 Sylvester Stallone $1,442,338,864 8 $180,292,358
130 Bobby Farrelly $1,440,575,500 16 $90,035,969
131 Tim Story $1,429,801,393 20 $71,490,070
132 Steve Martino $1,429,334,633 4 $357,333,658
133 Rob Cohen $1,412,572,748 15 $94,171,517
134 Aaron Horvath $1,410,767,221 2 $705,383,611
135 Scott Derrickson $1,395,368,941 12 $116,280,745
136 Edward Zwick $1,392,979,729 14 $99,498,552
137 Genndy Tartakovsky $1,380,218,122 5 $276,043,624
138 Barry Levinson $1,373,207,472 28 $49,043,124
139 George Miller $1,364,763,221 14 $97,483,087
140 Chris Miller $1,362,318,413 4 $340,579,603
141 Michael Jelenic $1,359,146,628 1 $1,359,146,628
142 David Ayer $1,355,342,634 13 $104,257,126
143 Nancy Meyers $1,351,418,684 6 $225,236,447
144 Kirk Wise $1,346,007,933 5 $269,201,587
145 Brad Peyton $1,343,081,630 9 $149,231,292
146 John Woo $1,338,631,542 18 $74,368,419
147 Woody Allen $1,325,810,769 50 $26,516,215
148 Luc Besson $1,324,674,386 21 $63,079,733
149 Wes Ball $1,322,134,528 6 $220,355,755
150 Hao Ning $1,313,023,808 8 $164,127,976
151 Oliver Stone $1,309,413,372 22 $59,518,790
152 Joachim Ronnin $1,284,043,151 2 $642,021,576
153 Sydney Pollack $1,272,536,887 18 $70,696,494
154 Jan De Bont $1,270,180,645 6 $211,696,774
155 Jia Ling $1,268,947,235 2 $634,473,618
156 Hu Guan $1,257,649,381 8 $157,206,173
157 Renny Harlin $1,252,318,378 29 $43,183,392
158 Guillermo del Toro $1,247,896,045 15 $83,193,070
159 John McTiernan $1,247,500,036 11 $113,409,094
160 Phil Lord $1,239,129,823 6 $206,521,637
161 Christopher Miller $1,239,129,823 5 $247,825,965
162 Phillip Noyce $1,238,931,345 17 $72,878,314
163 Paul Feig $1,225,525,492 13 $94,271,192
164 Jennifer Yuh Nelson $1,223,388,200 3 $407,796,067
165 Peter Segal $1,222,614,091 12 $101,884,508
166 Josh Cooley $1,199,494,881 2 $599,747,441
167 Gary Ross $1,197,400,146 6 $199,566,691
168 Baz Luhrmann $1,196,005,004 6 $199,334,167
169 Jeff Fowler $1,195,937,162 3 $398,645,721
170 Mel Gibson $1,194,277,912 9 $132,697,546
171 Adam Shankman $1,193,722,633 11 $108,520,239
172 Roger Allers $1,181,402,246 3 $393,800,749
173 Michael Apted $1,169,928,284 25 $46,797,131
174 Joel Coen $1,163,069,911 19 $61,214,206
175 Xu Zheng $1,154,650,680 8 $144,331,335
176 Simon West $1,150,323,477 14 $82,165,963
177 Ryan Fleck $1,142,716,089 6 $190,452,682
178 Garth Jennings $1,138,344,984 3 $379,448,328
179 Anna Boden $1,137,804,364 5 $227,560,873
180 Paul King $1,129,630,202 5 $225,926,040
181 Jared Hess $1,126,801,108 8 $140,850,139
182 Will Gluck $1,115,472,879 9 $123,941,431
183 Adam Wingard $1,112,383,535 12 $92,698,628
184 Muye Wen $1,109,588,372 4 $277,397,093
185 Brian De Palma $1,105,774,975 24 $46,073,957
186 David Silverman $1,100,379,362 3 $366,793,121
187 Robert Schwentke $1,094,443,111 10 $109,444,311
188 Joseph McGinty Nichol $1,091,870,976 13 $83,990,075
189 Alan Taylor $1,090,480,224 4 $272,620,056
190 Danny Boyle $1,084,247,371 16 $67,765,461
191 Michael Mann $1,082,934,271 14 $77,352,448
192 Paul Verhoeven $1,066,161,454 13 $82,012,420
193 Dave Derrick Jr. $1,059,161,122 1 $1,059,161,122
194 Dana Ledoux Miller $1,059,161,122 1 $1,059,161,122
195 Jason Hand $1,059,161,122 1 $1,059,161,122
196 Jonathan Liebesman $1,054,256,576 4 $263,564,144
197 Patty Jenkins $1,051,493,123 4 $262,873,281
198 Lasse Hallström $1,051,382,766 20 $52,569,138
199 Tim Miller $1,032,315,357 2 $516,157,679
200 Chad Stahelski $1,031,652,346 9 $114,628,038

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.